Tynemouth Blade
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Durham scientists find that wearing Red makes men look angry!
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HillmortonBlade
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I might be wearing predominantly white next season, but I bet I'll still get f**king angry...
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True that, even the skinheads are wearing it
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Wouldn't trust anything said by a scientist from Durham (speaking as someone who got a degree and PhD there) 
The place has gone downhill since they changed the name from "University of Durham" (as it was in my day). Now it sounds like a glorified polytechnic.
The place has gone downhill since they changed the name from "University of Durham" (as it was in my day). Now it sounds like a glorified polytechnic.
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On that basis our new home kit will be our least intimidating ever
William Henry Foulkes
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Old research shows that if two teams perform equally the referee will favour the team in red.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/6097954/Why-teams-in-red-win-more.html
The study, by German sports psychologists at the University of Munster, was reported in New Scientist magazine. They showed video clips of taekwondo bouts to 42 experienced referees. One combatant wore blue, the other red.
They then showed them the same clips but digitally manipulated the clothing to swap the colours. The fighters wearing red were given an average of 13 per cent more points than when they were blue.
"If one competitor is strong and the other weak, it won't change the outcome of the fight," said Norbert Hagemann, who led the study. "But the closer the levels, the easier it is for the colour to tip the scale."
In 2004 scientists at Durham University also looked at how colour influenced sporting competitiveness. They analysed Olympic combat sports such as boxing, taekwondo, Graeco-Roman wrestling and freestyle wrestling and found that nearly 55 per cent of bouts were won by the competitor in red.
"There is now good experimental evidence that red stimuli are perceived as dominant and that they cause negative effects on performance in those viewing them," said Robert Burton, one of the researchers. "It is plausible that wearing red also makes individuals feel more confident, although this hasn't yet been tested."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/6097954/Why-teams-in-red-win-more.html
The study, by German sports psychologists at the University of Munster, was reported in New Scientist magazine. They showed video clips of taekwondo bouts to 42 experienced referees. One combatant wore blue, the other red.
They then showed them the same clips but digitally manipulated the clothing to swap the colours. The fighters wearing red were given an average of 13 per cent more points than when they were blue.
"If one competitor is strong and the other weak, it won't change the outcome of the fight," said Norbert Hagemann, who led the study. "But the closer the levels, the easier it is for the colour to tip the scale."
In 2004 scientists at Durham University also looked at how colour influenced sporting competitiveness. They analysed Olympic combat sports such as boxing, taekwondo, Graeco-Roman wrestling and freestyle wrestling and found that nearly 55 per cent of bouts were won by the competitor in red.
"There is now good experimental evidence that red stimuli are perceived as dominant and that they cause negative effects on performance in those viewing them," said Robert Burton, one of the researchers. "It is plausible that wearing red also makes individuals feel more confident, although this hasn't yet been tested."
BerksBlade
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It's an outrage! Will always be "University of Durham" to me.Wouldn't trust anything said by a scientist from Durham (speaking as someone who got a degree and PhD there)
The place has gone downhill since they changed the name from "University of Durham" (as it was in my day). Now it sounds like a glorified polytechnic.
axel smeets
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Wearing red certainly made Swindon fans behave like pricks.
I was reading this in the Times today and it listed an example of referees giving more penalties against teams playing in black in American football and ice hockey. This is of course entirely related to colour and not due to there being next to nobody playing in those colours other than Oakland, who historically are awful for giving away penalties
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